uncleared logging sites and peat bogs; 2) the establishment of a network of observation posts and regular patrols of the forest district; 3) the urgent organization of clearing logging sites of felling debris; and 4) the obligatory personal participation in firefighting. Records shall be drawn up for all instances of reassignment to other work, such as: participation in firefighting or participation in work on ditch-digging, etc., certifying the intensive work of the forest administration. Responsibility for the implementation of all the aforementioned measures is placed upon the forest rangers. Provincial forest departments are obligated to deliver weekly reports to the Central Forestry Administration on the progress of work in fire prevention and suppression and on the participation of the forest administration in this matter.

Without precise and detailed protocols and records, the failure of forest rangers to fulfill their obligations shall be considered a criminal evasion of duty.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin*

no later than 13 [August], 1920

Written in August, not earlier than 11 [August]

First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the typescript

supplemented and signed by V. I. Lenin